The Impact Of Investment Treaty Law On Host States : Enabling Good Governance?

1. Introduction I. International Investment Law: From Good Governance for Foreign Investors to Good Governance for All II. Conceptual Framework III. Outline of Chapters 2. Genesis of 'Good Governance' Narratives in International Investment Law and Scholarship: An Historical and Doctrinal Analysis I. Conceptual Inspirations behind the Good Governance Narratives of Investment Treaty Law II. Embodiments of Good Governance Precepts in Investment Treaty Law III. Competing Visions of Investment Treaty Law and its Good Governance Promise IV. Conclusion 3. How Do Host States Respond to Investment Treaty Law? I. The Impact of Investment Treaty Law on Governance in Host States: Key Empirical Questions II. Methodology III. Are Government Officials Aware of International Investment Law and its Good Governance Prescriptions? IV. How Host States 'Learn' from Investment Arbitration V. Negative Internalisation: Over-protection and Withdrawal VI. Internalising Investment Treaty Prescriptions: Why, at Whose Behest and What Cost? VII. Conclusion 4. The Role of Remedy Design in Inducing Host States to Comply with Investment Treaty Standards of Good Governance I. Damages as a Principal Form of Relief for an Investment Treaty Breach II. Can State Compliance with Good Governance Standards be Fostered through Monetary Sanctions? III. The Design of Investment Treaty Remedies and State Compliance with Good Governance Standards: A Functional Analysis IV. Compliance and Optimal Remedy Design: Punitive, Non-pecuniary, Multi-tiered? V. Conclusion 5. Investment Treaty Law and its Internal Capacity to Foster Good Governance in Host States I. Is the Investment Treaty Regime Compliant with Good Governance Standards? II. Legitimacy and 'Compliance Pull': (Insufficient) Transparency and Coherence of Investment Treaty Rules and Arbitral Jurisprudence III. Internationalisation of Investment Law and its (Disempowering) Effects on Governance in Host States IV. Good Governance as a Two-way Street: Dealing with Investor Misconduct in Treaty Practice and Arbitration V. Conclusion 6. International Investment Law and its Anti-participatory Animus I. The Investment Treaty Regime and Its Disregard for the Political and Social Interfaces of Development II. Foreign Investors and the Domestic Political Process III. Developing Countries and the Making of International Investment Law: Lack of Participation and Inclusivity IV. Lack of Stakeholder Input in the Making of Investment Treaties in Developed Countries V. Conclusion 7. Conclusion.

• | Author: Mavluda Sattorova
• | Publisher: Hart Publishing
• | Publication Date: Feb 08, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 231 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1849465851
• | ISBN-13: 9781849465854